22 June 2008 – The big picture

Most plots are experiencing potato blight - evidenced by yellowing leaves and dark spots – so we took the decision to lift our first earlies (Belle de Fontenelle) before something sinister happens.

These were the spares seed potatoes we sowed next to the comfrey - we retrieved two-thirds of a bucketful. Over lunch with our allotment guest, Mr Perry, they were deemed to be delicious.

He was sent home with a pocketful of fluffy spuds.

There's also been weeding - little and often - and some harvesting of raspberries, strawberries and peas.

Black gold (compost juice) has been applied liberally to the corn and courgettes (zucchini).

And N was able to spend a good five minutes in a deckchair in the sun.

We now present for your viewing pleasure a panoramic vista (if that's not a tautology) of the plot (click for more detail and scroll right as necessary):